Latest news from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks :.Ben Pierce | September 30, 2010
Imagine your looking out over the Snake River in northern Wyoming. The Teton Mountains are rising sharply to the west and trout are surfacing for small dry flies. The hatch is a good one, but you have a feeling it might not last. You’ve seen a few hoppers leaping around in the grass and word [...]
Ben Pierce | September 29, 2010
Imagine you’re 12 years old. It’s a misty morning in the hills along the Madison River and the sun is just breaking through the clouds easing the chill in the air. You’ve got a shotgun clutch under your shoulder. There’s a wirehaired pointing griffon working the field in front of you. You’re wading through waist-high [...]
Ben Pierce | September 28, 2010
Montana’s planned 2010 wolf hunting season came to an abrupt halt in August with a ruling handed down by U.S. District Court judge Donald Malloy. In his decision, Malloy ruled that the Northern Rockies gray wolf population must either be listed as an endangered species or removed from the list, but that protections could not [...]
Ben Pierce | September 27, 2010
Think it’s hard to be away from home? It’s even harder during hunting season. Fortunately, in 2009, the Montana legislature passed a measure aimed at making it easier for former Montana hunters that have moved out of state to return and hunt. The new law encourages nonresident hunters to come back home to Montana to [...]
Ben Pierce | September 27, 2010
The Gallatin Valley Land Trust announced the hiring of its new executive director on Monday. Penelope Pierce replaces former director Stephen Johnson who left GVLT in March to pursue other interests after five years at the helm. Pierce was among 50 candidates from across the nation that applied for the job. She has more than [...]
Ben Pierce | September 23, 2010
Don’t look now, but there’s gold in them there hills. Rain and mild temperatures have conspired to produce one of the area’s most prolific crops of mushrooms in more than a decade. And among those fungi are the prized chanterelle mushrooms which have “popped” in abundance in the mountains around Bozeman. “Chanterelle season usually begins [...]
Ben Pierce | September 10, 2010
On Friday, Stephen Guertin, regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, issued a statement calling attention to long-term plans for the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Montana. The statement discusses plans for a 15-year roadmap to preserve and protect the refuge’s biologic diversity, natural character and environmental health. The “CMR” [...]
Ben Pierce | September 9, 2010
Ever been hiking in September on one of those days when the sun ducks in and out of the clouds? You’re sweating one minute and chilled to the bone the next, right? Under such conditions, it can be tough work finding that happy medium where you’re not peeling one layer off just to add two [...]
Ben Pierce | September 3, 2010
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and the Art Center in Helena are co-sponsoring an interesting event Sept. 4, 2010 at Missouri Headwaters State Park near Three Forks. From 10 a.m.-4 p.m. stop by the park to check out 8-12 Helena-area artist on hand for the “Paint the Parks” series. The event offers the chance to [...]
Ben Pierce | September 3, 2010
I woke this morning before dawn at the invitation of my colleague and pilot Nick Wolcott for a morning flight over Bozeman. We met at 6:30 a.m. in Bozeman and were in the air within an hour, looking down as the morning light just began to pour over the Bridger Mountains. We made our way [...]
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